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On August 26th, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-10th District) was one of eight Republicans who voted for a bill commonly called Cap and Trade. HR2454 officially titled, the "American Clean Energy and Security Act" passed the House of Representatives, but has yet to be considered by the U.S. Senate. The legislation passed by a total of seven votes. Indeed, without the support of these eight Republicans, the Cap and Trade bill would not have passed in the House. The Republicans who voted for Cap and Trade have come under a great deal of criticism. In fact, the bill is so...

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THE SLEEPING CHURCH IN OHIO, THE COMING PERSECUTION, AND RIFQA BARY'S TESTIMONY ON FOX NEWS Dear church, By now, many of you have heard about the Rifqa Bary situation throughout the news. I can honestly say that this situation to stand up on behalf of Rifqa Bary has been one of the proudest and challenging fights of my life thus far. What I am coming to grips with however, is exactly how extensive and widespread Rifqa's testimony of Jesus actually is. I am convinced that Rifqa's testimony of Jesus is actually a taste, or forerunner, of the season that the...

More Teachable Moments by: Malcolm A. Kline, September 09, 2009 The latest poll from the Chronicle of Higher Education shows that conservatives make up only 15 percent of faculty and staff at surveyed colleges and universities while most polls show that more Americans than ever before are identifying themselves as right-leaning. Given this dearth of Tories, it is hardly surprising that in the Washington Post outlook section on Sunday August 30, 2009, found two profs—One from Occidental College and the other from Harvard—who observed that “Ted Kennedy passed the liberal torch to Obama” and then urged “Let’s run with it.”...

Just one day after President Obama plans tries to recapture the initiative in the health-care debate with a speech to a joint session of Congress, thousands of taxpayers plan to storm Washington, D.C., in a three-day event to take their fight against excessive spending, bailouts, growth of big government and soaring deficits to the front door of the U.S. Capitol. In a major movement unaffiliated with – but inspired by – Fox News' Glenn Beck's 9-12 Project, called the National Taxpayer Protest, thousands of Americans are answering the call and traveling to make their voices heard at Capitol Hill. Sept....

BORN IN THE USA? Shocker! Judge orders trial on eligibility issue Arguments planned Jan. 11 for major Obama challenge The left cries it's a forgery but cry is all it can do. Let's see... the embossed seal os a forgery, the court stamp is a forgery, the attending Doctor's signature is a forgery, the Supervisor of Obstetics id a forgery and the recorder's signature is a forgery and nattrally the footpront won't match Barack H. Obama's because it's a forgery from a Ken Doll. So this is why Mr. Obama and his crew blew a million bucks trying to hide...

"Truther" actor Charlie Sheen says President Obama needs to investigate fully the actions and conspiracies he believes resulted in the 9/11 attack on the United States. Sheen, in a fictionalized "interview" with Obama on the PrisonPlanet website, notes that while the conversation did not take place, "This is an open letter to the president requesting a new investigation." Sheen and others contend the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed almost 3,000 people could have been arranged by officials high in the U.S. government to provide a pretext for war. If they did not actually arrange them, government officials at...

PARIS, France (CNN) -- Former first lady Laura Bush praised the performance of her husband's successor Monday, breaking with many Republicans in telling CNN that she thinks President Obama is doing a good job under tough circumstances.

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Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council. The topic for the summit-level session of the council on September 24 is nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament – one of several global challenges that the US now wants to see addressed at a multinational level. The council has a very important role to play in preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons, and it’s the world’s principal body for dealing with global security cooperation,” Susan Rice, US envoy...

Viewers who tune into President Barack Obama’s health-care address tonight will see all the usual trappings of a big-time speech – members of Congress applauding or sitting quietly, depending on their partisan viewpoint, and guests in the gallery carefully selected to match key message points. But the things to watch for at 8 p.m. tonight are far more subtle, though in many ways, more important to whether Obama succeeds in wrestling the health-care debate back onto his own terms. “It’s a pivotal moment for health care,” said former Clinton White House Chief of staff Mack McLarty. “It’s a dramatic moment,...

Remarkable movie shows how AIDS story falls apart under questioning Leading luminaries confess flaws, confirming critics’ concerns Clarity and entertainment value may gain wide audience for documentary But John Moore and his goons are on the job to sink it if possible...

http://ag.ca.gov/initiatives/activeindex.php?active=A 09-0026 Submitted for Title and Summary on September 01, 2009. "2010 California Marriage Protection Act." PDF link here: http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i823_initiative_09-0026.pdf SECTION 1. Title. This act shall be known as the "2010 California Marriage Protection Act." SECTION 2. Section 7.6 is added to Article I of the California Constitution to read: "No party to any marriage shall be restored to the state of an unmarried person during the lifetime of the other party unless the marriage is void or voidable, as set forth in Part 2 of Division 6 of the Family Code. Relevant section of the Family Code: http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/code/getcode.html?file=./fam/02001-03000/2210-2212 Website:...

SUV Jones has no more to do with the “green movement” than our beloved SUV does. He is a “green hitchhiker”. His whole act has been based upon an intense hostility toward America. He made his bones when he was arrested in California during the Rodney King riots. If you watched any of that on TV then you know what I am talking about. Even though he was afforded the finest education that America could provide, topped off with a law degree from Yale, it was not enough to dissuade him from his radical hatred for our beautiful country and...

Excerpt from Wall Street Journal Letters to the Editor: Your editorial "California's Man-Made Drought" (Sept. 2) about the severe drought and water crisis in California argues that California's water problems could be wished away if our nation were only willing to sacrifice an endangered three-inch fish, turn on a few pumps to move water from Northern California to the Central Valley, and wave a magic wand. The trouble is: The fish are a sliver of the problem, the pumps are already on, and pointed fingers can't make it rain. California's water crisis is far more troubling than your editorial suggests....

Why are Jon Henke and I firing into our own ranks on the birther nonsense? Wouldn't it be better to take on Democrats? Well, two answers to this. First, the WND folks are not, in any sense of the word, my people. I supported Obama, remember? Second of all, it's not, like, true. It's not even reasonable to believe that it might be true. It is crazy nonsense. Even if everything that the truthers say were factually correct, Barack Obama was the son of an American mother, which means he is a natural born American citizen. This is a waste...

LANCASTER, Pa. — Horses drawing buggies regularly clop down the roads approaching Lancaster, a peaceful city in the heart of Amish country that had only three murders last year and relatively low crime. But if the community sounds reminiscent of the past, it also has some distinctly modern technology: 165 surveillance cameras that will keep watch over thousands of residents around the clock. When it is complete, the surveillance system will be bigger than those in large cities such as Philadelphia, San Francisco and Boston. And the fact that it will be monitored by ordinary citizens has raised privacy concerns

It promises to be the biggest game of Monopoly the world has ever seen. In a 21st century twist on the popular board game, toymaker Hasbro and tech giant Google have made the game available online, allowing players to compete in a worldwide, real-time version of the game. Launched today, Monopoly City Streets uses the Google Maps platform to let users "buy" any street in the world. Once players create an online profile, they receive a handsome -- albeit make-believe -- $3 million to purchase, build and trade in neighborhoods close to home or the farthest-flung cities. The site went...

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy ruled that the fall wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana can proceed, denying a legal effort by environmental groups to stop them. The Montana and Idaho wolf hunts will not irreparably harm wolf populations and may proceed, according to a ruling filed last night by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy. Molloy on Aug. 31 heard arguments from environmental groups seeking to halt the fall wolf hunts—the first of their kind in the lower 48—on the grounds that the killings would irreparably harm the species, which was on the Endangered Species List until just this...